On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: Pubis Angelical
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: Pubis angelical
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780816636815
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s… read more

Title: Puerto Rican Poetry : A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Translator(s): Robert Márquez
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
City: Amherst, MA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 490 pp.
ISBN: 9781558495616
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of the sixty-four poest, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico'… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Puppet : A Chicano Novella
Translator(s): Barbara D. Riess, Trino Sandoval
Author: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Original work: Puppet
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 082632228X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET)  "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Purgatory
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: Purgatorio
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9781608197118
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0452287987
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 9780452287983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is of Jewish descent, so he has no… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Purity of Blood
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Limpieza de sangre
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 0399153209
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Queen Cocaine
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Núria Amat
Original work: Reina de América
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerillas, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: & Other Stories
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276223
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's the eighties in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high school civics… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction

Title: Quesadillas
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Si viviéramos en un lugar normal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9780374533953
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa). It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family… read more
Literary Genre: Satire, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction

Title: Rabbit Island : Stories
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Elvira Navarro
Original work: La isla de los conejos
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641097
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro's Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Rain Over Madrid
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: Ha dejado de llover
Publisher: Hispabooks
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9788494228476
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) She remembers that the comment really stung and then immediately stopped stinging--like accidentally touching an open sore--when she took into account that a virtue can also be a defect if you just shift your perspective a few… read more

Title: Ramifications
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Original work: El nervio principal
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On a Tuesday in July 1994, Teresa leaves her home in a residential neighborhood of Mexico City and travels to Chiapas, drawn by news of the formation of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. She leaves behind a sixteen-year-old… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction

Title: Ratfish
Translator(s): José Lucas Badue
Author: R. A. Ramírez-Báez
Original work: Los ratapeces
Publisher: Sitel
City: Jackson Heights, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 30 pp.
ISBN: 9780974500515
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the story "Ratfish", the main character is an illegal immigrant, a house painter who lives traumatized by the unrelenting harassment from the INS. Two word "ratfish", as it can be clear seen, is a new coinage composed of two… read more

Title: Rattlesnake
Translator(s): Sean Higgins, Jill Robbins
Author: Arturo Arias
Original work: Cascabel
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1931896011
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tom Wright, an American CIA agent, is sent into Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been kidnapped by a guerrilla organization known as EGP.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Ready, Set, Go
Translator(s): Ana Patete
Author: Inés Bortagaray
Original work: Prontos, listos, ya
Publisher: Veliz Books
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 115 pp.
ISBN: 9780996913492
Summary/Reviews: (Barnes & Noble) Fiction. Latinx Studies. Translated by Ana Patete. "An original and dazzling road novel that invites us, alongside its protagonist, to traverse the imagination's landscape, the language of dreams, and the rituals of… read more

Title: Reasons of State
Translator(s): Francis Partridge
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: El recurso del método
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Red Ants
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Pergentino José
Original work: Hormigas rojas
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050192
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A literary triumph by one of Mexico's most promising young authors, Red Ants is the first ever literary translation into English from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino José updates magical… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9780375425448
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Red April
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Santiago Roncagliolo
Original work: Abril rojo
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 0307388387
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Political fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction